Google "picture" tag now in Google Chrome/HTML 5.1

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What's wrong with the good old "img" tag in HTML code for images? In a word, it's a tag that links to a graphic image of specific size and proportions.
[The folks at Google think the new picture tag] could usher in a new era of responsive design. The basic idea behind the concept of responsive design is that a given web site will scale and render appropriately for a specific screen size, whether that screen is attached to a desktop PC or a smartphone.

We'll find out soon enough. Google has proposed it for the new HTML 5.1 spec, and built it into a beta version of Chrome. More comments on Slashdot here.
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Andrew Tanenbaum (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-31 03:18 (#2RXH)

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

The tag has merit (Score: 1)

by hyper@pipedot.org on 2014-08-31 03:21 (#2RXJ)

Especially considering the proliferation today of mobile devices. The question is.. will anyone care enough to use it.

Re: The tag has merit (Score: 1)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-08-31 17:10 (#2RXZ)

It would be nice to have an image format that resizes, but it would also be nice to have the server do the resizing, not the browser. Of course that would be an easy line of attack for DDOS and breaches to the system, so here we go again ...